Polishing sparkly objects and other fun tasks

So, we're sounding pretty rockin' on a lot of our tunes these days. This week we decided that our festival set would be:

Sugar Moon
Real Midnight
Ain't no Fun to be Alone in San Antone

Over the next 3 weeks we're going to work on these 3 tunes as well as Teach your children.

I'm considering adding in a Thursday evening rehearsal on Feb 2nd... for all of our groundhog day moments. We'll need a venue for this as my space is much too small to hold an Orchestra. So if anyone feels up for hosting it would be greatly appreciated. 

Alone in San Antone

Call & Response - We talked about doing a ladies/gents split in the verses for this one. I've attached a box chart below with colour coding on the verses. (green is an all sing). I also updated the lyrics on the final tag.

aintnofun_boxchart_call_rsvp.pdf
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Improvising in this tune:
Use your G Major Pentatonic Scale, and if you wish to add in the Colour tones that we went over last week (Bb & Eb) go ahead. Check last week's post for the worksheet.

The solo breaks will be either 4 or 8 bars depending on what we decide to do with them. So come up with 4 go to riffs and you'll be laughing. Play them over and over and over and over and over, so that your fingers build them into muscle memory.  

Fiddlers:   the Pdf below is 4 pages! it is all of the chords in this tune. when we are singing, you can strum the fiddle like a ukulele, using the "Strum Chords". I'll talk about how and where to fill, as well as how to build group fills at the next class. (Plus I'll have some examples that might be fun to put into our arrangement!)

fidchords_aintnofuntobealone.pdf
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Real Midnight

Please review your harmonies, lyrics and puzzle parts for next week. Don't worry about the arrangement, just work on getting the individual parts down. We will be re-arranging this one for our Festival Group.

nifh_realmidnight.mp3
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realmidnight_practice_fid_uke_1.mp3
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realmidnight_practice.mp3
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realmidnight_voxscore_-_full_score.pdf
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realmidnight_practice_guitar_1.mp3
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Sugar Moon

Please review the harmonies, we'll spend a bit of time workshopping them next week, but if you spend some time working on the bridge section on your own things will rock through a lot easier. Vocal score & Mp3 are below,

sugar_moon_-_full_score.pdf
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sugar_moon_-_cindywalker_bob_wills.mp3
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I will be adding more resources as soon as I have a chance. 
(Sugar Moon (Ellington walk up for Fiddle & Concertina)
Harmonies & new Mp3 for teach your children.